The four parties that make up the opposition in the Lanzarote Island Council (PSOE, Podemos, Somos Lanzarote and Ciudadanos) have registered a joint request for the corporation's extraordinary plenary session, convened by Pedro San Ginés for this Friday, to put to a vote the censure of the president's actions, who hid for almost half a year the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) that urges the Water Consortium to review the contract with Canal de Isabel II, considering that there was "a substantial modification of the award procedure".
In addition, "and derived from the doubts expressed in said ruling about the negotiated procedure by which Canal de Isabel II was finally awarded the management of the integral water cycle", the opposition groups request that the president of the Consortium be urged "to initiate the ex officio review process of the procedure".
PSOE, Podemos, Somos Lanzarote and Ciudadanos recall that the TSJC ruling points out that there were "surprising alterations for the benefit of the company that was awarded the contract", so they also request that the plenary session agree to withdraw a possible appeal to the ruling of the high court of the Canary Islands. "If there are doubts about the procedure, and being a strategic sector of the importance that water has for Lanzarote, the logical thing to do is to proceed with the ex officio review of the negotiated process", say the four parties, who consider that "maintaining the litigation only means allocating resources from the public entity to entangle and prevent a matter of such relevance from being transparent".
They are confident that PP and PIL will support the censure
The organizations that make up the opposition are confident that "the political majority that has been against the concealment of information, and in favor of clarifying the uncertainties surrounding the award process to Canal, will have the democratic opportunity to address these points in the extraordinary plenary session that will deal monographically with this controversy".
In this sense, they recall that both the PP in a press release and the councilor of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote, Manuel Cabrera, both government partners of San Ginés, have publicly expressed their disagreement with the opaque action of the president, which is why the opposition "is confident that both the censure of San Ginés' attitude and the request for review of the contract will prosper".